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Creole subjects in the colonial Americas : empires, texts, identities / edited by Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Descriptionix, 503 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Latin American literature--To 1800 --History and criticism.
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --History and criticism.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Creoles in literature.
Cultural fusion--Latin America --History.
Cultural fusion--North America --History.
Latin America--Civilization.
North America--Civilization.
Other author/creatorBauer, Ralph, 1965-
Other author/creatorMazzotti, José Antonio, 1961-
Other author/creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Other author/creatorSociety of Early Americanists.
Contents Introduction : creole subjects in the colonial Americas / Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti -- New worlds, new empires, new societies. Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and criollo subjects / Carlos Jáuregui -- Sons of the dragon : or, the English hero revived / David S. Shields -- Cruel criollos in Guaman Poma de Ayala's First new chronicle and good government / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- Barefoot folks with tawny cheeks : creolism in the literary Chesapeake, 1680-1750 / Jeffrey H. Richards -- Colonial writings as minority discourse? / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- The cultural geography of creole aesthetics. Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican archive : public performances / Stephanie Merrim -- Creole Bradstreet : Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English identities / Jim Egan -- Self- and collective identity among new Christians in the periphery of the Iberian empires : Bento Teixeira, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, and Manuel Beckman / Lúcia Helena Costigan -- Spectacular wealth : Baroque festivals and creole consciousness in colonial mining towns of Brazil and Peru / Lisa Voigt -- Creole bodies : race, gender, ethnicity. Gender and gossip in criollo historiography : Juan Suárez de Peralta's Tratado del descubrimiento de las Indias y su conquista (1589) / Kathleen Ross -- Female captivity and "creole" male identity in the narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Swarton / Teresa A. Toulouse -- The ambivalent nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1688) / Luis Fernando Restrepo -- William Byrd II and the crossed languages of science, satire, and empire in British America / Susan Scott Parrish -- Creole politics of memory and knowledge. El Dorado, paradise, and supreme sanctity in seventeenth-century Peru : a creole agenda / José Antonio Mazzotti -- Popularizing the ethic of conquest : Peralta Barnuevo's Historia de España vindicada / Jerry M. Williams -- The "rebellious muse" : time, space, and race in the revolutionary epic / Ralph Bauer -- Natty in the 1820s : creole subjects and democratic aesthetics in the early Leatherstocking tales / Sandra M. Gustafson.
General noteBased on papers presented at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists held in Tucson, Ariz. in 2002.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008041493
ISBN9780807832134 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807832138 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780807859681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807859680 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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